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Our Business Virtual Servers have a wide selection of features, including our proprietary Global Web Control Panel (GWCP), one of the finest, most user-friendly and secure web-based control panels that exist in the internet today. It allows you to setup, manage, and update several features related to email alias, email redirection, autoresponders, mailing lists, list subscriptions, listservers, and web directory passwords for your account, all with a "point-and-click" interface using your browser from anywhere in the world in real time, without requiring any programming background on your part. For more information on GWCP or to test drive it right now, please click here.

Currently we have three types of Business Virtual Server accounts: Business Lite, Business Plus, and Business Premium. The following Table presents the account features and our great pricing for the Business Virtual Server accounts.

 

Business Virtual Server Features and Pricing

Account Features

Business Lite

Business Plus

Business Premium

www.yourname.com Yes Yes Yes
New Domain Registration $14.95/Year $14.95/Year $14.95/Year
Use Your Existing Domain Free Free Free

Disk Space

150 MB

250 MB

400 MB

One-Time Setup Fee

$20.00

$20.00

$45.00

Account Fee per Month

$20.00

$25.00

$40.00

Account Fee per Quarter
(includes discounts)
$57.00 $72.00 $110.00
Account Fee per 6 Months
(includes discounts)
$110.00 $140.00 $210.00

Account Fee per Year
(includes discounts)

$200.00

$275.00

$400.00

Your Cost per Month
(with yearly hosting plan)
$16.67 $22.92 $33.33
30 Day Money-Back Guarantee

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web Design Service (Optional) Extra Fee Extra Fee Extra Fee

Free Referrer Program

Yes

Yes

Yes

Account Features

Business Lite

Business Plus

Business Premium

FTP Account 1 1 1

Unlimited FTP Access

Free

Free

Free

Anonymous FTP Access N/A N/A Free

FrontPage Extensions

Free

Free

Free

Unlimited Usage (Hits)  Free Free Free
Free Traffic per Month 1.5 GB 2.0 GB 6.0 GB
POP Email Account 15 20 25
Virtual POP Server Free Free Free
Virtual SMTP Server Free Free Free
Catchall Email Address Free Free Free
Unlimited Email Alias Free Free Free
Email Redirection 150 200 500
Autoresponders Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited

Account Features

Business Lite

Business Plus

Business Premium

Web-Based Control Panel
(live demo available)
Yes Yes Yes
Detailed Traffic Statistics Free Free Free
Password Protected Web Directories Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Web-based Mailing Lists 5 10 20
Subscribable Listservers 5 10 20
Real Audio G2 6.0 Free Free Free
Real Video G2 6.0 Free Free Free

Secure Server (SSL) Access

Free

Free

Free

Customizable "File Not Found" Page Free Free Free
Additional Domain Forwarding Yes Yes Yes
Several Add-on Features Yes Yes Yes
Online Commerce (Optional) Yes Yes Yes
Secure Shell Account N/A N/A 1
Unlimited SSH Access N/A N/A Free

Account Features

Business Lite

Business Plus

Business Premium

Apache 1.3.4 Free Free Free
PHP3 Version 5.1.4 Free Free Free
Perl 5 Free Free Free
SSI Free Free Free
Your Own CGI-bin Free Free Free
Miva Empressa Free Free Free

MyVolano Chat
(with 20 chat rooms)

$10/month $10/month Free
Java jdk 1.1.5 N/A N/A Free
Python 1.4 N/A N/A Free
TCL N/A N/A Free
C++ with compiler access N/A N/A Free

Account Features

Business Lite

Business Plus

Business Premium

Graphic Web Counter

Free

Free

Free

VisitorBook Pro

Free

Free

Free

Multi-User Forums

Free

Free

Free

ThatsAnOrder Shop Cart

Free

Free

Free

Free For All Links

Free

Free

Free

Formmail Script

Free

Free

Free

Poll It Voting Script Version 2.0 Free Free Free
Postcards

Free

Free

Free

Quiz Master

Free

Free

Free

Simple Site Search

Free

Free

Free

Server Technical Support

Free

Free

Free

Comprehensive Online Manual

Free

Free

Free

 

Order Information

To order a Business virtual server account, please fill-out our Online Virtual Server Order Form, and your account will be ready within 6 to 12 hours after we receive your order and process your payment. Please note that orders with new domain registration may take upto 12 hours for processing. Also, due to the standard propagation time for InterNIC updates, it may take 24-72 hours for a new domain to be functional across the Internet.

 

Business Virtual Server Feature Explanation

Your Own Domain Name (www.yourname.com)

We configure the DNS entries for your domain name and host name (yourname.com and www.yourname.com) in our servers when we setup your account.

If you already have a domain name, you would need to modify your domain with the appropriate registry with our nameserver and IP address information for moving your domain to our servers. If you are not sure how to modify your domain, please contact us and we will provide the necessary information. Most registries do not charge anything for domain modification, but requires that only the Registrant or Admin Contact for a domain initiates or approves domain modification. You can verify Registrant or Admin Contact for your domain by using our Domain Lookup tool. Domain move does NOT involve any change in domain ownership or domain registrar.

If you order a new domain name, then we register your domain name with your ownership with an appropriate registry and charge you only $14.95 fee (one-year InterNIC or registry fee included!). This fee is non-refundable, requires pre-payment and is in addition to any hosting and setup fee.

If you would like to register your domain yourself or if you are ordering any foreign domain name, then we will provide our nameserver, IP address and technical contact information that you would need to register your domain with any appropriate registry. Please be advised that accurate entry of our nameserver information in the registry database is required before your domain name will work. Also, please note that the domain registry fee would apply, irrespective of the ISP or webhost you select to register or host your domain with. Most registries charge a non-refundable $30.00-$35.00 per year of domain registry fee and require pre-payment of the fee.

Total Traffic (Bytes)

The total traffic represents the total amount of data accessed by visitors of your site through web browsers. Though we do don't offer unlimited traffic for our Business Virtual Servers, data transfers for your web site will not begin to be metered until your web traffic exceeds the limit shown in this page. If your account exceeds the limit, you will be asked to pay for extra traffic at a rate of $0.50 per megabyte (1024 kilobytes) of traffic per month. However, you will be notified in advance before we charge a fee for exceeding allocated traffic. You may also be advised to switch to a higher grade virtual server for the next month. For most customers, this won't be a problem as you will be able to monitor your daily and weekly traffic with Wusage software installed in your account.

POP Email Account

All Business Virtual Server accounts come with multiple POP accounts. A POP account is a password-authenticated protocol based real email account that can receive and store email messages. There are several third party software that you can use to access and manage your POP accounts. Also, at your option, you can automatically redirect your email messages to one of your existing accounts, perhaps the one that you have with your own internet service provider (ISP).

Unlimited Email Aliases with Catch-all Address

An email alias is an address that appears as a real email address, whereas in reality, all messages sent to it is automatically forwarded to another POP email account. Business Virtual Server accounts allow you to use unlimited email aliases with a catch-all address for your domain. For instance, you will be able to use addresses like webmaster@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com, admin@yourdomain.com and any-name@yourdomain.com. Email messages sent to anything before @yourdomain.com will automatically go to your default POP email account, or to your preferred external account that you have from your ISP or from any other provider. You will be able to manage your catch-all address using Global Web Control Panel 24 hours a day.

Email Redirection

With email redirection option available to Business Virtual Server accounts, you will be able to have messages received at selected addresses forwarded to separate destination addresses. For instance, you may decide to forward emails for webmaster@yourdomain.com to you@yourdomain.com, messages received at sales@yourdomain.com to be forwarded to john123@yahoo.com, and messages for support@yourdomain.com to go to mary@herisp.com and so on. You will be able to create, delete and update the forwarding addresses instantly using Global Web Control Panel 24 hours a day.

GlobalFront Email Redirection Features


Autoresponders

Auto-responders or infobots are preconfigured messages that are automatically emailed by the server as a reply to your clients' email requests for further information on a specific issue related to your business. For example, you might want to have info@yourcomapny.com as an autoresponder address. When you advertise this address and potential customers email to this address for more information, they would instantly get a message of your choice. Our system also allows you to automatically keep track of the people who have used your auto-responders, as copies of their request mails can be forwarded to your email address.

Password Protected Web Directories

You will be able to use Global Web Control Panel (GWCP) that we install in your account to instantly password protect any of your web directories. This will require visitors to the protected part of your website to enter username and password before they can view the contents in that directory. The GWCP also allows you to list the authorized users in each directory, add single to unlimited users and passwords for any web directory, remove access for selective users, and completely un-protect a previously protected directory, all with your browsers instantly without requiring any programming knowledge. Also, to the best or our knowledge, the GWCP password protection manager is the only cgi-based software of its kind in the internet which can intelligently avoid corrupting FrontPage webs since it checks for FrontPage web setting before modifying password setting for any web directory. A live demo of the GWCP interface is available in our site.

Web-Based Mailing Lists

With all Business accounts, you will be able to use our proprietary Global Web Control Panel to manage your mailing list(s) and subscribers. As the list administrator, you will be able to add or remove subscribers from your list(s), view or download a copy of the list, get a count for the total number of subscribers in the list, lookup any specific address in a list, and send an instant message to all the subscribers from a password protected web page. Each mailing list can include upto 1000 email addresses, and each email message to a mailing list can be upto 75k.

Subscribable Listservers

A listserver allows multiple people who have subscribed to share information and opinions on a specific topic to interact through instant email messages. Each listserver can include upto 1000 names, and each email message to a listserver can be upto 75k. Using the listserver, any subscriber can send a message to all subscribers to the listserver by simply sending a single email to the listserver. Integrating the listserver with infobots and automated mailing list management programs that we provide with your account, you can allow your clients to be automatically included in the listserver when they send an email message to a subscription address of your choice.

FTP Account

An FTP account is a file transfer protocol based account that is used for uploading and downloading files to and from your account. All Business Virtual Servers allow you to have FTP access to your account, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. There are several FTP software in the market that you can use to upload and download files to and from your virtual server.

Anonymous FTP Account

An anonymous FTP account let you allow your visitors to upload or download specific files to and from a specific directory in your account through FTP without giving them the main account id or password. This is a convenient and secure feature that you can use if you would need to exchange files with your clients.

Unlimited Secure Shell (SSH) Access

Qualified business accounts get unlimited SSH shell access to the server, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Unlike many other companies which don't allow you to have shell access, we offer you the flexibility of shell access as long as the access is not used for abusive purposes as defined in our policies. 

FrontPage Extensions

All of our Business Virtual Server accounts offer you the option of using Microsoft FrontPage98/2000 extensions at no additional cost to you! This means if you are using Microsoft FrontPage to author or design web pages, you can publish highly professional looking web pages at your virtual server quickly and easily.
 

Online Commerce Solutions (Optional)

Your virtual server can be configured for ecommerce functionalities with online payment processing gateways, such as PayPal, LinkPoint, CyberCash etc. These are third party services that can process your customers' credit cards, charge cards and checks online, and deposit money to your account. In most instances, the party you sign-up with will provide you with the details of configuration instructions that you can implement in your website.

Secure Server Access

Secure servers allow encrypted transport of information over the web. This feature is considered very significant for certain data transfer needs including for credit card transactions and confidential communications. All Business Virtual Server accounts allow you to use SSL in your account.

Detailed Traffic Statistics

For all Business Virtual Servers, we offer you access to detailed traffic statistics for your website with an easy-to-understand graphic interface. The statistics is generated by Wusage 6.0 software that are licensed and pre-installed for your use in your accounts. This is greatly useful for businesses that would like to relate their marketing strategies and advertising campaigns with increases (or decreases) in incoming traffic to their web sites. 

Customizable "File Not Found" Page

All Business Virtual Servers can be configured so that you can make a custom-made page named missing.html in your www root directory. Whenever visitors in your site enter a bad URL, they will see this page. This page replaces the Error 404, "File not Found" page. You can customize this page so that it has a link to the correct URL of your homepage, index page, or any other page you like in your website. That way you won't miss any visitor to your site, even though they forgot the correct URL but simply remembered your domain name!

CGI, Perl5, Java, and SSI Supported

Our business accounts allow you to install and execute your own CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Perl and Java scripts, provided they are executed in a way which is both safe and healthy for the servers. Also, our servers support Server Side Includes (SSI), in case you wish to use any cgi features that require them.

Several Pre-configured CGI Scripts

All Business Virtual Servers come with your own CGI-bin and several pre-installed CGI scripts - all included absolutely FREE. While some of them are fully configured and ready to run, you can customize any or all of them to meet your specific requirements. The scripts allow you to have you own internet bulletin board, guestbook, free-for-all links page, random text displayer, shopping cart, and much more!

Web Counter

All Business Virtual Servers offer you the option of using a CGI based counter program that shows the number of times a particular file is accessed by visitors to your site. The counter program is already configured to work with your account so that you can see the number of times your main files were loaded by your visitors. This is greatly useful for businesses that would like to relate their marketing strategies and advertising campaigns with increases (or decreases) in incoming traffic to their web sites. 

Formmail Script

All Business Virtual Servers come with a CGI script that allows you to receive inputs entered by visitors in a web form located in you website. Web-based form is a great way of having orders, comments, inquiries or feedback from your visitors in a structured and professional way.

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Your satisfaction is of utmost importance to us. We are so confident about the reliability and performance of our servers that we offer 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee to each of our customers. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with your account, simply let us know within 30 days of opening your account by emailing us at support@globalfront.com. For your security, we require that any cancellation request must contain your domain name, account user name and password. We will refund all hosting fee that we received from you for the canceled account within 7 business days of your cancellation. (Setup fee and domain registry fee are non-refundable). Also we would always like you to be 100% satisfied with your account. If you have any question or concern about your account, then please let us know at support@globalfront.com.

Online Manual and Support

All Business accounts come with a comprehensive password-protected online manual that you will be able to access to get more information on how to use and manage the features for your account. Also, you can contact our support staff if you have questions regarding any feature of our server that relates to your account. We usually answer 80 percent of support questions in less than 4 hours, between 8 AM in the morning and 11 PM at night.


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